Determinants of Corporate Capital Structure: Evidence from Non-financial Listed French Firms
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Keywords
capital structure; trade-off theory; pecking order theory; market timing theory; Euronext Paris;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2015-12-08 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-CFN-2015-12-08 (Corporate Finance)
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